story: My trip with my sister and my daughter to Manhattan wedding gown(,) shop, cannot be understood without further focusing on Marina, my 14-year-old daughter Ive asked to try on dresses. 
  
  This was the girl I took to Kleinfeld, the fancy store featured on the television program Say Yes to the Dress. As the trip approached, I asked Marina if she was excited. Sure, Mom. shed say, shrugging. Marina was more excited about getting a tattoo on her ankle to represent my fight with ALS than trying on $ 10,000 wedding gowns. 
  
  My sister, Stephanie, had arranged for a car with a wheelchair lift to drive us from the hotel to Kleinfeld. The car driver wheeled me in. 
  
  At Kleinfeld with flower arrangements ten feet high, I felt like rolling into a dream. "Wow!" I said. I was wearing a new black outfit. Marina wore jean shorts, a sleeveless shirt, and sneakers. _ . The kind Kleinfeld ladies pointed out rooms like tour guides, naming the designers one by one on display: Alita Grham, Pnina Tornai... With Marina walking beside me, Stephanie pushed my chair up and down rows and rows of dresses that made Princess Diana's dress look modest. 
  
  Marina didn't say a word. We turned a corner into the storage room, where hundreds of dresses hung in plastic protector sleeves. Marina and I were overwhelmed. 
  
  "Want to try one on ?" I said, touching Marina's hand. 
  
  "OK," Marina said in her sharp, unsure voice. 
  
  "Tell them the style you'd like." 
  
  Marina stood silent. I felt bad for bringing her, for forcing such an adult experience on a child. 
  
  Marina picked an A-line dress. Or, more precisely, the ladies of Kleinfeld picked it for her. Marina was too shocked to do more than nod. As she took the gown into the dressing room, I tried not to think of my little girl on her wedding day or of her as a baby in my arms. I tried not to think of her with her own baby in her arms one day. 
  
  I tried not to think of Marina right now, embarrassed by her mother's plans, by things she could not and should not yet understand. 
  
  I am leaving money in my will for Marina's wedding dress. Stephanie has promised to bring her back to Kleinfeld to purchase it. 
  
  "No pure white!" I said to Stephanie. "Ivory. Not too much tulle . Think lace." 
  
  "Think royalty when picking a dress," I advised Steph as we waited outside the dressing room. "Think Princes Kate. Elegant. Think long sleeves. They make dresses more formal." 
  
  Marina came out, sleeveless, flared . She looked like a 14-year-old girl in the middle of a giant cupcake. 
  
  "I don't like the loose gown." she said. 
  
  That's my girl! 
  
  "How about trying on one with long sleeves?" I asked her. 
  
  The ladies brought out a dress with long lace sleeves, an Empire collar, a ruched fitted waist, and a long, smooth silk skirt. 
  
  Marina disappeared into the dressing room. When the door opened, she looked a foot taller and a decade older. I could clearly see the beautiful woman she will be one day. I simply stared. 
  
  What do you do when you glimpse a moment you will not live to see? 
  
  I dipped my head. Breathe, I told myself. I looked up. I smiled. Marina smiled back. 
  
  I worked my tongue into position to speak. "I like it," I said. 
  
  In that dress, Marina stood straight, shining brightly, and tall. 
  
  "You are beautiful," I whispered, my tongue barely cooperating. I don't know if she heard me. We took some photos. And moved on. A memory made.
questions: who had ALS?
questions: who did she take to Kleinfeld?
questions: how old is she?
questions: was she excited?
questions: what was she more excited about?
questions: about what?
questions: how much were the dresses that were going to be tried?
questions: how high were the flower arrangements?
questions: did marina where jorts?
questions: what else did she wear?
questions: what is the name of the sister?
questions: what different designers were mentioned?
questions: who pushed the chair?
questions: what style did Marina pick?
questions: who really picked it?
questions: was marina dumbstruck?
questions: who promised to take Marina back to kleinfelds?
questions: what did marina look like when she tried the dress?
questions: was the next dress better?
questions: how did she look?
answers: I do
answers:  my fight with ALS
answers: Marina
answers: Marina
answers: 14
answers: my 14-year-old daughte
answers: No
answers: Marina was more excited about getting a tattoo
answers: getting a tattoo
answers: Marina was more excited about getting a tattoo on her ankle
answers: to represent my fight with ALS
answers: to represent my fight with ALS
answers: $10000
answers: than trying on $ 10,000 wedding gowns. 
answers: ten feet high
answers: At Kleinfeld with flower arrangements ten feet high,
answers: Yes
answers: Marina wore jean shorts
answers: a sleeveless shirt, and sneakers.
answers: a sleeveless shirt, and sneakers.
answers: Stephanie
answers: My sister, Stephanie
answers: Alita Grham, Pnina Tornai
answers: naming the designers one by one on display: Alita Grham, Pnina Tornai..
answers: Stephanie
answers: Stephanie pushed my chair
answers: an A-line dress
answers: Marina picked an A-line dress
answers: the ladies of Kleinfeld
answers:  Or, more precisely, the ladies of Kleinfeld picked it for her.
answers: Yes
answers: Marina was too shocked to do more than nod
answers: Stephanie
answers:  Stephanie has promised to bring her back to Kleinfeld to purchase it. 
answers: like a 14-year-old girl in the middle of a giant cupcake.
answers: She looked like a 14-year-old girl in the middle of a giant cupcake. 
answers: yes
answers: "I like it," I said. 
answers: beautiful
answers: You are beautiful